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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7309667 | Woven fabric and a method for the production thereof A fabric includes mutually transverse thread systems, with at least one of the thread systems including a differential shrinkage yarn C. The shrinkage yarn C has at least one effect component A that irreversibly elongates itself upon heat treatment, and at least one... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7020940 | Texturing yarn There is disclosed a method of texturing yarn products wherein the yarn product is passed along a predetermined yarn path through a liquid jet device applying a force to the yarn transversely to the axis thereof, comprising directing the liquid as it passes through ... | 04/04/2006 |
| 6756329 | Synthetic fiber capable of absorbing and disabsorbing moisture, entangled yarn blend using the same, knitted and woven goods using the same, and nonwoven fabric using the same A synthetic fiber capable of absorbing and disabsorbing moisture comprising a component capable of absorbing and disabsorbing moisture and a fiber-forming polymer. The fiber of the present invention has a moisture absorption of 1.5% or more when it is allowed to rea... | 06/29/2004 |
| 6726975 | Multiple fiber floor mat and method Dual fiber carpet and matting fabrics are made of tufted ends of yarn with one end being made from standard carpet denier yarns ranging from about 10 to 30 denier per filament and total denier ranging from about 600 to 5000 denier and the second end being made from ... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6370858 | Core yarn production method and apparatus A method and apparatus for producing core yarn in which a drafted fiber bundle and a core fiber are supplied to a nozzle block and a hollow guide shaft, and in which vortex air currents are ejected from spinning nozzles, in the nozzle block, to make the f... | 04/16/2002 |
| 6345491 | Fluid-jet twist-inserting method An apparatus for inserting twist into a moving strand, including a first body including an orifice extending therethrough for permitting passage of a moving yarn. An air channel extends therethrough and communicates with the orifice. The air channel commu... | 02/12/2002 |
| 6227253 | Method and device for twisting at least two running for a loom selvage forming device A rotatable element (10) is configured with a helical, endless thread guide passage (14) which is used to twist at least two threads (8, 9), particularly in a weaving machine's selvage forming device (7). The threads (8, 9) are guided in the passage (14) ... | 05/08/2001 |
| 6138336 | Holographic air-jet textured yarn A process to produce a plyed holographic yarn in which the slit film is allowed to be pulled from its source rather than being driven by drive rolls. The slit film and at least one other yarn are plyed and textured in an air texturing jet.... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6112387 | Yarn treatment jet A yarn treatment jet has a yarn passage extending through the body of the jet and a fluid inlet intersecting the yarn passage transversely. In cross-section the yarn passage has a main part and a substantially parallel sided yarn controlling part which is... | 09/05/2000 |
| 6109015 | Process for making poly(trimethylene terephthalate) yarn In a method of producing poly(trimethylene terephthalate) yarn from PTT chip which has been extruded through a spinneret into filaments and coated, the coated filaments are passed between an unheated feed roll and a tension roll to tension them without ca... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6109016 | Low-shrinkage hybrid yarns production thereof and use thereof The low-shrinkage hybrid yarns comprise reinforcing filaments and matrix filaments composed of thermoplastic polymers having a lower melting point than the melting or decomposition point of the reinforcing filaments. The yarns are characterized by a 160°... | 08/29/2000 |
| 6089009 | Fluid-jet false-twisting method and product A process of producing an assembled yarn, including the steps of providing two or more yarns moving downstream from a supply to a take-up, inserting alternating-direction zones of twist into at least one of the yarns, the at least one yarn having an area ... | 07/18/2000 |
| 6076345 | Method and apparatus for generating a yarn composed of at least two yarn components A method is provided for producing a yarn from at least two individual yarn components having different physical characteristics so that the produced yarn has a desired visual effect. The method includes continuously supplying at least one yarn component ... | 06/20/2000 |
| 5996328 | Methods and systems for forming multi-filament yarns having improved position-to-position consistency Individual differently colored or colorable feed filament ends are withdrawn from respective creel-mounted packages and passed through a separation guide. The separation guide serves to "normalize" the filament end-to-end positions and tensions. That is, ... | 12/07/1999 |
| 5827464 | Making high filament count fine filament polyester yarns A direct melt spinning process for providing high filament count fine filament polyester yarns having excellent mechanical quality and along-end uniformity and unitary interlace by spinning all the filaments of such high filament count yarn from a single ... | 10/27/1998 |
| 5802836 | Method for making thread using substantially equal overfeed to an intermingling device A method of making yarn comprises feeding at least two drawn, continuous filament starting yarns (18, 19), of which at least one is a multifilament yarn, together to an intermingling device (21) to form a single bulked thread of which the filaments of the... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5746046 | Method for forming comingled composite yarn A composite yarn and a method for forming the composite yarn include the composite yarn being formed from different components wherein the resultant yarn exhibits characteristics not apparent from the individual component yarns with the composite yarn bei... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5741587 | High filament count fine filament polyester yarns A direct melt spinning process for providing high filament count fine filament polyester yarns having excellent mechanical quality and along-end uniformity and unitary interlace by spinning all the filaments of such high filament count yarn from a single ... | 04/21/1998 |
| 5725949 | Hollow-fiber bundle and mass-transfer and/or heat exchanger A hollow-fiber bundle containing at least one core bundle, where the core bundle contains at least three hollow fibers which are arranged around a carrier thread, with at least one winding thread wound around them, where the cross-sectional form of the ca... | 03/10/1998 |
| 5680684 | Air intermingling method and air intermingling machine employing a 1/f fluctuation A method for intermingling yarn, and an air intermingling machine 1 used therein, is provided that yields yarn with the comfortable feel of hand-spun yarn, on an industrial scale. In the air intermingling machine 1, intermingling is imparted to the yarn b... | 10/28/1997 |
| 5673549 | Method and apparatus for producing randomly variegated multiple strand twisted yarn and yarn and fabric made by said method A method and apparatus for producing randomly variegated multiple strand wrapped yarn in twisting together two or more yarns at a plurality of yarn twisting stations. At each station a pneumatic twisting head is disposed in which randomly turbulent air cu... | 10/07/1997 |
| 5662980 | Carpets made from poly(trimethylene terephthalate) bulked continuous filaments Polyester carpets of poly(trimethylene terephthalate) are disclosed which have excellent stain-resistance, texture retention and resistance to crushing. The bulked continuous filament yarn used to make the carpets and the process for making the yarns are ... | 09/02/1997 |
| 5619849 | Method and apparatus for producing randomly variegated multiple strand yarn in twisting together at least two yarns and yarn and fabric made by said method A method and apparatus for producing randomly variegated multiple strand yarn in twisting together two or more yarns at a plurality of yarn twisting stations. At each station a pneumatic twisting head is disposed in which randomly turbulent air currents a... | 04/15/1997 |
| 5579628 | Entangled high strength yarn An entangled multifilament yarn made from high strength filaments having a tenacity of at least about 7 g/d, a tensile modulus of at least about 150 g/d and an energy-to-break of at least about 8 J/g. The yarn is used to make ballistic resistant articles.... | 12/03/1996 |
| 5558825 | Method and apparatus for producing polyester fiber This invention relates to a method and apparatus for producing a polyester fiber which cools a plurality of molten polyester fibers from a spinnert 2 to a temperature below a glass transition point, then takes up the fibers by a non-heating first godet ro... | 09/24/1996 |
| 5549966 | Fabric of commingled fiberglass and polytetrafluoroethylene An improved composite fiber of fiberglass and polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is provided. The composite fiber comprises a coherent strand of commingled filaments of fiberglass and PTFE which is far more resistant to flex, abrasion, and chemical attack tha... | 08/27/1996 |
| 5518814 | Flat multifilament yarn having low opening tendency and good compaction Described is a flat multifilament yarn with minimal opening tendency of the mutually bound-together filaments, expressed by the quantity VS(KF)>42% and with good compaction, expressed by the quantity (VGmean /VGmax) * 100%>45% the V... | 05/21/1996 |
| 5487859 | Process of making fine polyester hollow filaments A post-coalescence melt-spinning process for preparing fine undrawn hollow polyester filaments having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity at high speeds (2-5 km/min) involving selection of polymer viscosity and spinning conditions, whereby the voi... | 01/30/1996 |
| 5424123 | Intermingled multifilament yarn comprising high modulus monofilaments and production thereof There is described an intermingled multifilament yarn comprising high modulus monofilaments made for example of aramid, carbon or glass and a process for producing this yarn. Conventional air intermingling is impracticable for high modulus yarns since the... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5417902 | Process of making polyester mixed yarns with fine filaments Polyester mixed fine filament yarns having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity, and preferably with a balance of good dyeability and shrinkage, are prepared by a simplified direct spin-orientation process by selection of polymer and spinning condi... | 05/23/1995 |
| 5407621 | Process for preparing polyester fine filaments Polyester fine filaments having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity, and preferably with a balance of good dyeability and shrinkage, are prepared by a simplified direct spin-orientation process by selection of polymer viscosity and spinning condit... | 04/18/1995 |
| 5384082 | Process of making spin-oriented polyester filaments Polyester filaments of high shrinkage and high shrinkage tension may be prepared by heat treatment of undrawn crystalline filaments of low shrinkage and shrinkage tension, and may be used for making polyester yarns of mixed shrinkage and bulky polyester y... | 01/24/1995 |
| 5356582 | Continuous hollow filament, yarns, and tows Hollow polyester undrawn filaments having excellent mechanical quality and uniformity are prepared by a simplified post-coalescence melt spinning process at speeds of e.g. 2-5 km/min by selection of polymer and spinning conditions whereby the void content... | 10/18/1994 |
| 5275618 | Jet entangled suture yarn and method for making same A method for making a multifilament suture yarn includes jet entangling the filaments of the suture yarn prior to other operations such as twisting and braiding. A multifilament braided suture is made of air entangled suture yarns, such as by braiding. Th... | 01/04/1994 |
| 5244616 | Method of making improved polyester filaments, yarns and tows Air-jet texturing with drawing, especially cold-drawing, or hot-drawing or other heat-treatments of spin-oriented crystalline polyester filaments, and particularly polyester feed yarns, that have been prepared by spinning at speeds of, e.g., 4 km/min, and... | 09/14/1993 |
| 5145623 | Method of making improved polyester filaments, yarns and tows Drawing, especially cold-drawing, or hot-drawing or other heat-treatments of spin-oriented crystalline polyester filaments, and particularly polyester feed yarns, that have been prepared by spinning at speeds of, e.g., 4 km/min, and have low shrinkage and... | 09/08/1992 |
| 5130069 | Process for producing dyeable hot-bulked polypropylene fibers modified with a copolyamide Dyeable fibers are formed from polypropylene by blending a major portion of polypropylene with a minor portion of 1) a copolymer of nylon 6,6 and substantially equimolar amounts of hexamethylene diamine and an alkali metal salt of 5-sulfoisophthalic acid ... | 07/14/1992 |
| 5039373 | Splicing apparatus for fiber tows including automatic cutting means An apparatus for splicing the tow ends of man-made fiber tows, including a pair of jet carriers having oppositely directed pairs of jets to which compressed air can be supplied, whereby the connection of tow ends introduced between the pair of jet carrier... | 08/13/1991 |
| 5035110 | Nub yarn A substantially twist-free, crimped, continuous, multifilament yarn containing randomly-spaced, tightly entangled nubs and the process and apparatus used for making such yarns is disclosed. The nub yarn is made by feeding a substantially entanglement-free... | 07/30/1991 |
| 5032333 | One-line interlacing of bulked continuous filament yarns and low-melting binder fibers This invention relates to a process for combining a low melting binder fiber with a continuous filament base yarn to form a composite yarn having good bulk and a high level of interlace. More particularly, the process involves bulking a continuous filamen... | 07/16/1991 |
